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A look at APM tools and how they fit into your monitoring strategy with Squared Up & SCOM.

Discussion points:

• Overview of APM tools

• Comparison with existing tools

• Integrating APM into Squared Up

Setting the sceneA team has developed a new key line of businessapplication.

They’re hip, so they’re using DevOps with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD). They care about the performance of not just CPU/Memory/SQL but individual lines of code.

As a high profile application, the boss wants to know if the app is up and what user experience is like in real time, and wants any issues quickly resolved.

The goalYou want to provide your organisation with consistent, high quality monitoring capabilities across all applications.

• Application availability dashboards and uptime reporting

• End-to-end monitoring for issue management and root cause

• Detailed health and performance monitoring for all components

APM OverviewIdeally suited for modern line of business web-apps written using terms like Agile, CD, Micro-services and other trendy concepts.

2016 Gartner defined APM tools as:

“One or more software and hardware components that facilitate monitoring to meet five main functional dimensions”

• End user experience monitoring (active and passive)

• Application runtime architecture discovery and modelling

• User-defined transaction profiling

• Component deep-dive monitoring in application context

• Reporting and data Analytics

Azure App Insights

How does APM compare with SCOM?

APM Tools SCOM

User experience monitoring Real user monitoringSynthetic user monitoringBrowser (JS) performance and server response times

Synthetic user monitoringServer response times only

App discovery and modelling Typically very strong support for mapping application components.

Strong support for discovering all infrastructure in your environment.DAs and Squared Up VADA for app modelling.

Transaction profiling Designed to trace transactions through network, code and database level.

Not a feature of SCOM.

Infrastructure monitoring Increasing coverage of infrastructure monitoring.

Core strength is broad coverage of many enterprise platforms, extended via MPs.

Scale Typically priced and architected for per-app deployments.

Priced and architected for whole environment deployments.

One or the other?If you have APM tools, do you need SCOM? If you have SCOM, do you need to use APM tools?

• A good fit for APM tools:• High profile (business critical) applications that are sensitive to user experience• Applications with active development teams• Cloud-first apps

• A good fit for SCOM:• All of your other applications: third-party apps, legacy apps, non-critical apps

• In some cases, best-of-both hybrid approach:• User experience, transaction and code level monitoring of APM• Full-stack infrastructure and environment monitoring of SCOM

APM SCOM

Integration options✓ Web API Tile

• JSON REST API

✓ SQL Tile• direct access to APM SQL database

✓ Web Content Tile• embedding APM web UI (e.g. NewRelic)

✓ Data On Demand Tile• advanced integration via SCOM (e.g. PowerShell)

vNext Sneak PeekAzure App Insights Integration

APM SCOMLog Analytics

MoreCloud | Network | Hypervisor | …

ITSM

A single Enterprise Application Monitoring strategy across all applications.

• Discovery and mapping of all of your applications

• Outside-in monitoring of application availability

• End-to-end health and performance monitoring

• Issue management, change requests and asset information via ITSM integration

• Change tracking, log file monitoring and security auditing via log analytics integration

• Code-level diagnostics and user performance monitoring via APM integration

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